While walking down the road you may encounter several people or someone. They talk to you, babble, etc. drool falling out of their mouth. This is only a metaphor. Chances are on the day to day encounter you will encounter someone like this.
Now, someone like this is laughable when out in the open, but when they have power, or if disguised, they can give you “the hook of stupid.” For instance, they may present a compelling or emotional argument, which causes you to lose your train of thought. Genius is a delicate thing. In the heat of the moment, with emotions in the mix, even stupid arguments can convince someone to dwell on it. Then you might slip up, lose your quality of mind. It’s like arguing with a stupid person, you have to first get on their level, and once you do, you are swamped by it, its a climb just to get back up.
So I have a new solution to this age old problem, its called “hearing what they have to say.” “Hearing, but not being totally absorbed.” Its a technique. You have to carefully listen, but in a critical way, pointing out every single fallacy and paradox you hear, immediately. Interrupt them if you have to. You need to tell that person every single fallacy and paradox before they overwhelm you with their blabbering. If that person doesn’t know what a fallacy is, they are stupid and you should leave the conversation. But if they do know what a fallacy is, there is hope and they may be engaging in intentional or unintentional paradox (IOUP), which is a fallacy but still a rational fallacy. A rational fallacy is some sort of hypocrasy or paradox, but adds to the conversation and has a rational reason for being their which may increase ease of understanding.
Remember, content is content. Content is good, people like content. Better quality content, usually. But there is a process called wading through garbage. You can pull gems even from the shittiest of arguments, or the stupidest of stupid. Take whats good from the conversation, and cut out the crap. For example, churchgoers are sort of smarter than non churchgoers. Like, an atheist who was raised a Christian is sometimes smarter than just some kid raised in the suburbs never believing in God. In Church they force you to sit through boring lectures, depending on the preacher some of the lectures are rather clever and well thought out, drawing analogies to real life parallels and increasing cognitive reasoning capability. Other kids, they just sit at home and watch the news or play videogames. Videogames are a feminine thing, that is why gamers look feminineish. TV is set at a rate of 30 hertz which is the trance rate. Government magi did this as a means to mind control, the brains consciousness is directly integrated with the TV as if it is it’s own consciousness. When kids play videogames they accept the narrative of the game unquestioningly. Game tells them to steal a car, that’s what they do. Game tells them to wear a certain type of clothes to complete the objective that’s what they do. Game tells them diarrea stained pink tutus are cool, diarrea stained pink tutus are suddenly cool. Now that doesnt mean they will steal a car or have diarrea stained pink tutus in real life because once the trance is over, they are flooded with memories of social norms and what good and bad is and what their peers would say. And not all games are dumb, for example Metroid Prime is setup like a science game with the scan visor, and it was my idea to reverse engineer it to teach people particle physics and how to use the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.